Reflections From Abroad 2017 - 18 Contents

4 Message from the Dean 6 About Us New Name. New Logo. Same Objectives. 8 The 411 10 The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net 12 Every sha-la-la-la-la: Pop music, travel, and there’s no place like Nostos As Ernest Hemingway wrote, “It is good to have an end to journey 14 Kicking my way to confidence toward, but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” 15 London called and I still haven’t hung up

Study abroad is about new experiences, new insight, and new 16 Interview with Father Michael Perry connections to people and places. It offers college students the 19 A Full Year Abroad opportunity to explore intellectual, personal, and professional 20 In The Eyes of Marist Abroad Students – Photo Contest interests in another culture and context. It’s a chance to re-examine 22 Photo Contest Runners-Up yourself and gain a clearer view of the horizon. 24 Interview with Carol Toufali 26 Marist Paris: Mod’Spe On July 1st, Marist International changed its name and logo to Marist Abroad. 28 Introducing the Freshman Dublin Experience (FDE) 30 Asia Study Abroad Program (ASAP) So why the change? 32 Culture Shock Opened My Mind 33 The Best View in Auckland Abroad is the core of what we do. Journeys abroad expand what 34 FFE Mentors Program is possible. We return to familiar shores as different people, with 35 Three semesters abroad – why not? nuance, independence, and resilience. 36 Venice Biennale 2017 The new logo incorporates a visual punctuation of the “O” in 38 Where in the World are Marist Students? “Abroad,” representing the world around us. It reminds us of all that is out there for us to see, enjoy, and experience as we evolve along the journey.

2 3 “Sometimes, that special sense of place can be Education Abroad and a Sense of Place right where you are.” By Dr. John E. Peters Dean of International Programs

“I don’t think we’ll need one anytime soon,” the gentleman told my project. In the mysterious way development while abroad are students who submitted eye-grabbing coincidences work, I had just been countless. They become wistful. Their photos. This year’s Globetrotter also father, firmly planting his coffee mug on the counter at Sammy’s Café, reviewing a colleague’s syllabus that faces and tones change when they features interviews with Father Michael the local Chinese restaurant. My dad countered, “Everything changes, included the sense-of-place theme. describe friendships so close that Perry, Marist ’65, our first study abroad and eventually our new four-way stop is going to graduate from stop Coincidence, yes, but surprise, no. good-byes were tear-clouded. They student, and Carol Toufali, Marist signs to a stoplight.” It was the late 1970s, and in my small hometown Academics, authors, poets, and speak lyrically about landscapes Abroad’s outgoing senior coordinator. songwriters from a range of disciplines permanently etched into their minds of Jackson, California (population 1,500), discussion and debate about talk about the idea of a sense of and cultures so deeply woven into Father Perry spent a year at the Institut the new four-way stop could be heard not only at Sammy’s lunch place and explore why some places their psyches, they become part Catholique de Paris, and his energy counter but also on the front page of the local paper. hold particularly special meaning for The answer, of course, is that life of those places. and enthusiasm for Marist and his time individuals and communities. takes us on myriad journeys, and we studying abroad shine through. Marist I was fortunate to grow up at a time can develop a deep attachment to Students have taken me to meet their Abroad’s Senior Coordinator Carol and place when kids were free to While a sense of place may start with many places during a lifetime. While host families in Spain, France, and Toufali closed her office door for the roam the county streets; make their a specific environment, location, or my early days in Jackson represent Italy, where their homestay parents last time in June 2017 after nearly a own, mostly innocent, fun; enjoy time a single individual, it goes deeper. a strong, and in a sense, the most tell me that their student guests quarter of a century at Marist. The joke with family; and learn with excellent It emerges from a coalescence singular experience of my youth that have not only become part of their in the office was that her last day was teachers in a great public school of natural, cultural, and social I would never trade, students today family but also valued members of the only one in our collective memories system. In grade school I just assumed phenomena, but it is also visceral, have wide-ranging opportunities to the local community. that Carol actually left the office on that The Andy Griffith Show’s Mayberry something you feel with both head plug into communities across the world time at 5:00 p.m. Her professionalism was based on my hometown (even and heart, something almost tangible. thanks to globalization, the internet, Students studying in Tanzania, Samoa, as well as her friendship will be though Mayberry did have a stoplight). Such a place helps us understand who and greater mobility. The challenge and Senegal recount in satisfying missed, though we hope she will make we are and informs how we see and is to allow ourselves to immerse and detail how they were able to immerse it back to Marist in the years to come, That day at Sammy’s, I was only half interact with the world. It offers us joy connect wherever we are, at home or themselves in their research while possibly as part of Alumni Weekend! Waiting to welcome dozens of new students listening to my dad’s conversation, in the moment and often for years to otherwise, and to find, build, and enjoy also forging strong friendships in arriving in Florence for their freshman year preferring instead to read my come, even when it may no longer be community there. areas way off the beaten paths from In the pages that follow, I believe Spiderman comic book, sip at a part of our daily lives. their lives at home. And they don’t shy you will find that in their journeys, our Top row from left: Amelie Moen, BA, studio art mouth-burning hot chocolate, and Sometimes, that special sense of away from revealing tough moments contributors have indeed found and and art history student, Marist Italy; Vanessa occasionally glance out the window to In my daughter’s video, she traces place can be right where you are. that evolved into stories they will tell connected with people and places Nichol-Peters, Director, Marist Italy; Daniela see if anyone I knew was passing by. moments that have special meaning “International” and intercultural for a lifetime – losing a passport and that have enriched their lives. Years Filio Flores, BS, conservation and art history student, Marist Italy; Genesis Cortez, BA, studio In those years, my dad worked at the for her, focusing on family, friends, opportunities abound for students being temporarily stuck in the midst of from now they will still have instant art and art history student, Marist Italy; Eve local Safeway grocery, and my mom music, sports, and her interactions with at Marist even if they do not study travel through Eastern Europe or Asia; emotional access to that palpable Walsh, undeclared, Marist Italy; Elisa Checcacci, owned an antique shop called Jackson people in different environments and abroad. The opportunity, though, to struggling to follow professors’ lectures sense of place even if, metaphorically Student Services Coordinator, Marist Italy. Antiques. I haven’t lived in Jackson landscapes. Prominently featured are have another part of the world as in another language and being worried speaking, a traffic light has been for more than half of my life, yet many her early childhood years in Zimbabwe your classroom, especially when the about failing classes; or feeling added to the landscape! Bottom row from left: Julianna Inglese, BFA, people remark that the majority of my and South Africa; time spent in New experience is well facilitated with more momentarily homesick during a holiday interior design and art history student, Marist “stories” come from my childhood, York, Florida, and California; and her than a nod given to reflection before, that holds strong family traditions. As always, we thank our students and Italy; Dr. John Peters, Dean of International from Jackson. teenage years in Europe. Some people during, and after the travel, is a gift. their families, Marist faculty and staff, Programs and Associate Professor of in the video I know, and many I do Approximately half of Marist students You can read the thoughts of students, and our affiliates for their support Economics, Marist College. Fast forward to this year. My daughter, not. The first time I watched “Sense of study abroad at least once during their faculty, and staff in this year’s and help in making our international a high school senior in Florence, Place,” I wondered how a short sense- undergraduate years. Globetrotter: Reflections from Abroad, programs thrive. We hope to see you recently sent me a link to a wonderfully of-place video could contain, well, so and see the people and places that soon – in the United States or abroad! personal YouTube video, “Sense of many places. Their stories of lives transformed by captivated students through the lenses Place,” she had made for a school academic, personal, and professional of our photo contest winners and other

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ur programs offer a variety of study Marist Abroad Staff arist College, in partnership Marist Italy Staff – Florence abroad experiences that support with Istituto Lorenzo de’ a broad range of educational Dr. John E. Peters, Dean Medici, is the only U.S. college Vanessa Nichol-Peters, Director Oobjectives with affiliated programs on six Dr. Gavin Webb, Director Mor university with a full branch campus Brad Miller, Assistant Director continents. Marist Abroad is open to all Marist James Morrow-Polio, Coordinator in Florence offering both undergraduate Elisa Checcacci, Student Services Coordinator students meeting eligibility criteria and upon Caitlin Paul, Coordinator and graduate degrees. Bachelor’s Myra Stals, Academic Advisor successful application. Dr. Isabel Carrasco, Director, Marist Madrid degrees are available in studio art, Alaïa Giglio, Resident Director Ruth Watts, Office Assistant art history, conservation studies, Lauren Seaman, Resident Director Some Marist programs are open to non- digital media, fashion design, interior Marist students as well. We offer semester, Marist Abroad Office design, Italian, and global marketing full academic year, J-term, spring attachment, communication. Graduate studies lead Marist Italy Staff – New York and summer programs that enable (845) 575-3330 to a Master of Arts in Museum Studies. students of any major to study abroad and [email protected] Dr. John E. Peters, Acting Dean complete degree requirements within their marist.edu/abroad An undergraduate Certificate in Sports Christie Alfaro, Assistant Director four-year plan. Communication is offered every spring Laura Zuelch, Coordinator semester, and summer programs Sarah English, Director of Housing Be more than a tourist: include the Venice Biennale Studio and Joseph Giacalone, Executive Director of International Experience what it means to Art History Program and the ASPIRE Admission and Recruitment Program in finance. Deborah Holtman, Senior Assistant Registrar live and study abroad! Diane Ralston, Administrative Assistant

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Student Essays Caitlin Paul Photo Credits Clara Limal Kristen Semple Residence Assistants, Florence Program Assistants, New York Mr. John M. Pearson Courtney Martere Nicole Souza Meghan Jones Dr. John E. Peters Alex Carlin Darriel McBride Elsie Thompson Vanessa Campoli Carol Ann Asselin Darriel McBride Dr. Gavin Webb Dr. Isabel Carrasco Megan McCormack Carol Toufali Alexa Comuniello Serena Bailey Alyssa Mongroo Laura Zuelch Molly Costello411Jessie McFee James ‘Jimmie’ White Daniela Filio Flores Leeana Batungbacal Tyler Robinson Leslie Diaz Dominique McIntee Keri Berghahn Anneliese Saltarelli Alumni Contributions Jon Dombek Danielle Melillo Graduate Program Assistants Program Assistants, Florence Alexander Carlin Elsie Thompson Taylor Durand Chris Miles Leslie Diaz Jon Dombek Gabrielle Gerber Gabriele Miller Jessica Bauder Tahiti Beaupre Jacqueline Gruber Faculty, Staff, and Affiliate Father Michael Perry Dr. Lea Graham Alyssa Mongroo Elizabeth Chamis Genesis Cortez Samantha Hesler Contributions Colby Gray Nancy Montemerlo Nona Debenham Jennifer Durfey Brianne Linden Editors Jackie Gruber Rebecca Neeb Rachyl Grussing Hasion Gaston Stefano Mallozzi Christie Alfaro Kelly Harris Meghan Nosal Jean Hinkley Steven Jacobs Tierney Riccitelli Dr. Isabel Carrasco Leslie Bates Emma Harrison Kacey O’Brien Nichole McCarty Jillian McCarthy Brandon Leor Tehrani Dr. Lea Graham Barbara Kerbel Genevieve Hauck Shelby Parette Katherine Reaume Aimelie Moen Shelby Wilson James Morrow-Polio Carol Toufali Emily Jones Eliza Patterson Alexandra Schmitt Susan Zhang Gloria Jung Owen Polzello Erin Sullivan Graphic Designer Perry Kehmna Tyler Robinson Rachel Sullivan Gerald Berliner Dana Klarer Anneliese Saltarelli

Marist Abroad and Marist Italy them working on important projects Marist Italy’s programs in a variety of ambassadors, sharing the value of the Marist Abroad or Marist Italy alumni Marist faculty and staff reporting on Student Assistants and offering vital assistance in the ways, including orientation leadership, overseas experience in classrooms, who would like to work, intern, or overseas adventures. Take some Marist Abroad Programs office on the excursion assistance, social media, hallways, housing, online, and at the volunteer with our international beautiful photos, write an inspiring You’ve seen them on campus. second floor of the Hancock Center. and general office work. As on the study abroad fair. Their assistance in programs should contact essay, and submit your work for the In Marist classrooms giving Who are these people? They are our home campus, becoming part of the helping us offer the strongest programs [email protected]. next issue. Contact us for more details presentations. Standing behind Marist Abroad and Marist Italy student international team in Florence means possible is greatly appreciated. Space at [email protected]. tables in Dyson, Donnelly, Hancock, assistants. working to create, facilitate, and limits our ability to list everyone’s Want to contribute to the and the Student Center, showing support the highest-quality education names here, but you know who you Globetrotter? tens (or hundreds) of photos from Student assistants not only play a abroad programs possible. are, and to each of you we say: abroad loaded onto their laptops as crucial role on Marist’s Hudson Valley thank you, grazie mille, domo arigato, If you have experienced or are they recount stories from abroad. campus, but on the Florence branch In addition to these important staff, shukran, merci, jai-rruh-jef, vielen a current student in one of our You may also have seen their social campus as well. Students enrolled our programs are strengthened by dank, and muchas gracias! international programs, you can be media handiwork through the Marist in a Florence-based bachelor’s or the hard work and dedication of a Globetrotter contributor! Likewise, Abroad and Marist Italy Facebook and master’s program, or in the Freshman our alumni. Tens of alumni each we enjoy receiving submissions from Twitter feeds. Or perhaps you’ve seen Florence Experience (FFE), support semester volunteer as study abroad

8 9 “The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of

By Emily Thompson, #21, C Watch, Class S-262, Sea Education Association (SEA) Jacques Yves Cousteau

wonderreally didn’t want to, but I had to, the semester was a 135-foot sailboat operating theforever.” ship at different times of watch schedule, just my number I packed three pairs of shorts and There I was, standing because I knew I would regret it if cruising Polynesia in the South Pacific the day and night. The ocean never Sometimes I was in the lab looking six shirts for the trip, and it was more 30 feet above the water, II didn’t. The Samoan kids took the not as a passenger but as part of the rests, and when you are on a research at organisms through a microscope than I needed! I brought my phone my toes curled over the plunge, and then Mike leaped, and crew. The experience was pivotal for sailing vessel, you always have to be before dawn. Other times I was to take pictures but never wished for Erin wanted to, so I had to! I guess I me, a highlight of my Marist education. ready for come what may. hauling on the halyard to raise a a text or Snapchat. Life was simple. ledge, about to jump into felt peer pressure, but I like to think of sail in a storm. Sometimes it was Everything I needed was right there. I a frighteningly beautiful it as good peer pressure. I haven’t stopped talking about the My personal journey at sea exhilarating to be at lookout in the was surrounded by people I admired, incredible ocean wildlife including the middle of the ocean in the heart of the and throughout the semester my ocean trench in Samoa! The drop felt interminable, and I didn’t dolphins swimming right below me We launched from a small island in the night taking in the majesty of a starry confidence grew, and grew. So much know what to do with myself in the when I worked on the bowsprit or the South Pacific called American Samoa sky. But for me, the real beauty of the learned in such a short time. air for that long. Finally the ocean’s mammoth whale we saw breaching and sailed to Samoa, Wallis, Fiji, and SEA experience was the pleasing, if surface broke my fall, and the water on our second day out. I talk of New Zealand, where we completed difficult, routine of a sailor’s life. We Confession: Because I knew so little scooped me up and cradled me as if the amazing and diverse cultures I our voyage. Life on the small islands were not just crew, though; we also about seafaring, the first days of the I were a newborn baby. Compliments experienced and the people I met and is very different from life in the United had classes, and sometimes I just trip were a little unsettling, but day by for that amazing experience go my enthusiasm for daily life at sea. States, so I was happy about the focus wanted to go back to sleep! day I felt more at ease in my floating to the Sea Education Association on other cultures and the opportunity home. If you are up for an amazing (SEA), through which I learned so I knew very little about sailing or the to learn about them firsthand. What I loved most was working as part adventure, I highly recommend that much about nautical science, marine subjects we’d be studying which, of a team studying and navigating you look into one of the Sea Education biology, and myself. happily, were not prerequisites. After At sea, you are recognized as an miles and miles of ocean – 2,000 Association’s programs! six weeks of onshore study at Woods individual, but known by a number. It nautical miles. The longest we went Many confuse SEA with Semester at Hole, Massachusetts, we boarded makes it easy to verify if you are without seeing land was about 12 Sea, where home base is a cruise our schooner and were divided into supposed to be on deck or in the lab, days, and l did not even miss it, as I ship. With SEA, my home for most of watches, groups of crew charged with so I never looked for my name on the had I fallen in love with life at sea.

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“ When they get to the part “ everybody talks of home Pop Music, Travel, and There’s Where he’s breakin’ her heart as though it were the sparkle It can really make me cry, just like before of an earlier dream, a glint It’s yesterday once more” of rainwater in someone’s hair”

No Place Like Nostos – The Carpenters, “Yesterday Once More” – Michael Anania, “Tracings”

By Dr. Lea Graham, Associate Professor of English

couple of years ago as I was ‌ Buren, Arkansas, watching the animated landscape rushing toward me through an and the many-tiered cake looks like it will Micaela begins doing a subtle little dance preparing to go on sabbatical, “Yellow Submarine” short aired on enormous windshield as I tried to keep collapse any minute, but then someone in her chair, waggling her finger, mouthing I often daydreamed about the Captain Kangaroo! In that instance of up with his flurry of Spanish. I felt like an older sneaks us a drink when no one’s the words, “You know I’m all about that Aupcoming marathon bus trips I’d be familiarity, my concerns faded. I knew awed and anxious Queen of Sheba. looking or tells us a story they’ve just now bass, ‘bout that bass, no treble ...” taking through Latin America. It was everything would be all right. Victor decided we are old enough to hear. We It felt like a funny, little reprieve from the a strange longing, I’ll admit, but those seemed to understand. “Popular music When we travel, music triggers thoughts get a taste and sound for what growing drama. It felt like we were the stars in eight-plus-hour bus trips are often or the music we grew up with is the of the past: the first time you heard “Hotel up might mean, for the private joy of our own music video. It felt like we were accompanied by American pop music structure we hang our emotional timeline California” in your childhood bedroom; moving through time. high school girlfriends hanging out after from past decades. There is something on,” he told me. the rush of horns in Stevie Wonder’s school. I said, “I love this song.” Then, both restful and romantic about watching “Sir Duke” playing on that old turntable * * * maybe because we had been talking a new landscape unfold, safe inside my Late that winter and early spring I in your living room on a snow day in It’s the fall of 2014 and I am sitting in the about music, place, and time in our class, own head, serenaded by Top 40 hits from traveled through the Ecuadorian and fourth grade; or the Bee Gees’ “How News Café in Florence, a block from the or maybe because students had shared my youth. Colombian Andes to songs like “Billie Deep Is Your Love,” a roller rink favorite Medici Chapel which the famous Tuscan memories of dorky dads dancing to Lady Jean,” “Caribbean Queen,” “I Can Dream accompanied by lights spangling the light hits each afternoon. I’m teaching Gaga during birthday parties or had A month before departure, I was holed About You,” “Every Little Thing She Does skating couples, creating that sense of in Florence for the semester, and I am shouted out titles of their prom songs: up in a former colleague’s apartment Is Magic,” “Alive and Kicking,” “Funky rolling through the cosmos oblivious to all meeting with my student, Micaela, to talk Katie Perry’s “Firework,” One Direction’s in the Italian section of Worcester, Town,” and “Young Turks.” They were the else but a warm, moist hand in yours. about her assignment, an essay about “What Makes You Beautiful,” and Carly Massachusetts, finishing a manuscript and soundtrack of my trips to the mountains, the idea of becoming “comfortable with Rae Jepsen’s “Call Me Maybe,” Micaela getting used to the idea that on sabbatical hot springs, beaches, and cities. I was At the same time, the present landscape the uncomfortable.” A man enters the looks at me knowingly and says, “You I would have a long period of free time not in a cocoon, though, as I gazed out with all its wonders creates new cafe ranting. I had seen him pacing and know, whenever we hear this song, we spread out before me. One February the window, listened to music, or wrote in references for a song: a beach in Cadiz talking loudly earlier in the day, harassing will always think about this moment.” evening, talking with my pal Victor, a my journal. where white-shirted vendors sell coral- customers by pouring sugar packets into poet and music critic for the Worcester colored crabs from their baskets as their cappuccinos and shaking his fist in A few minutes later the owner arrived Telegram & Gazette, I tried to express my Babies cried, action movies sputtered we hear “Poker Face” being sung by a the face of the young Albanian woman and escorted the man out. As Micaela hopes for my upcoming travel as a way to with gunfire and static, and vendors group of teenagers; a marketplace on a behind the bar before a policeman and I got up to leave, I thought about get a handle on them myself. stood up front delivering mini-lectures on Sunday morning in Kota Kinabalu with its escorted him out. Now he is pacing in what we had witnessed in the light of energy drinks good for body and mind. watermelon juice and caged puppies and circles, holding his raised hand in a kind what she had just said. From Florence I told him that the first time I thought Silvio, my shaman-like seatmate from dirty-sock smell of durian for sale while of benediction gesture or “Heil Hitler” I would leave for York, England, then seriously about pop music as it relates to Pedernales, assured me he could cure “Thriller” plays from some hotel’s public salute while speaking a fast Italian in a from London to Tel Aviv with a few time and place was after I lost my passport my overly large knuckle and crooked address system; passing the forlorn but way that reminded me of scenes from days in Jerusalem before returning on the way to Mexico City. I had to take finger with a bit of “mantequilla de tigrillo” talented buskers in the streets of Galway, The Exorcist. to the United States and then leaving several buses and a train to get to the (tiger butter). Linda, a woman I sat who sing their hearts into “Tupelo Honey” again for South America. U.S. Embassy there, daunting because I next to on my way back to Quito from or “Wish You Were Here.” Micaela was a composed 18-year old, had never been to Mexico before, much Ipiales, made sure I tried every local but she was starting to get anxious. I I have often heard the Megan Trainor less Mexico City, the fifth-most-populated snack we were offered: plastic baggies The estranged nature of travel collides told her, “Listen, you should go. I have song since then, and wherever I was, city in the world. Sitting anxiously on one of fresh sliced mango with salt, tostados with feelings of nostalgia, a word that to stay with the woman behind the bar I thought of that moment with Micaela of the buses, I heard, “In the town where (Ecuadorian corn nuts), and chochos comes from the Greek nostos, or home, because no one else is here.” But, in the News Café. I also realized how I was born/ Lived a man who sailed to (lupine beans), all the while telling me and we are caught in the middle of time. Micaela doesn’t move. And then over the complexly music keeps our time. We sea/ And he told us of his life/ In the stories about her children. We hear Kool & the Gang’s “Celebration” PA system – in the midst of the quasi- know it will bring us back to these past land of submarines . . .” and are immediately sent back to chanting and our stilted talk about her moments and, so, has a way of predicting Once when I was returning from the a junior-high gymnasium of sweaty essay, both of us shifting in our chairs, our emotional futures. At once, I no longer was being jostled on beach, a bus driver, upon learning I enthusiasm: a concert of basketballs Micaela’s eyes darting between the stuffy public transportation in a frenetic stayed at his family’s hotel in Mompiche, bouncing, squeaking high tops, and man’s rant and my professorial chat – we metropolis. I was, instead, sitting cross- invited me to sit up front with him all the spirit chants, or to a cousin’s wedding hear the Megan Trainor hit “It’s All About legged on the green shag carpet of my way back to the capital. I sat on what where someone’s parents are trying That Bass.” childhood home on Lisa Lane in Van seemed a padded throne, the Andean embarrassingly hard on the dance floor

12 13 The word that best describes how I felt at the beginning of On the first day of my internship at the Hammersmith & my semester in Florence is overwhelmed! I wanted to take Fulham Law Centre in London, I think my knees were actually advantage of every opportunity, make friends, do the best shaking. My stomach wasn’t doing so well either. I could academically, and I questioned my ability to make it “I can’t believe it. This is it!” all happen. Culture shock. I experienced the meaning of that phrase firsthand.

My Way to Called and I Confidence Still Haven’t Hung Up KickingBy Tyler Robinson LondonBy Alyssa Mongroo four or five times during a competition. In ith my tea in my right hand and Wales, however, I was in a much larger W my notebook in my left, I made my division and, if I did not lose along the way out of my flat – feeling rather proud, way, could end up fighting seven to eight I’ll admit. My route took me past Hyde different competitors. Park and Kensington Palace and through Kensington High Street to the Law Centre, I won seven of my eight fights and part of a network of such centers, each took third place for my division in an serving its local area. international competition! I will never forget the pride and excitement of standing on Looking back, it is hard to believe that this the podium and being handed a medal. was my daily commute. The charming, I did not care that it wasn’t gold. The friendly doorman at the Baglioni Hotel experience itself was golden, and my always called out, “Good morning,” as he reward much more than a medal. saw me approaching. I strolled past the many shops on the High Street, which I returned to Florence more confident made me think of New York City’s Times and ready to experience all that I could. Square. Never had I imagined that I, a mazingly, what turned me around “If I am able to travel and compete in an small-town girl from Upstate New York, an area of London populated by many my thoughts about the U.S. presidential A was agreeing to take on yet another One conversation. One new mindset. One international competition in Wales, while would be living and working in a city as immigrants. We advised women who were election. The answers did not always come challenge! At home, I trained in martial commitment on top of those I already being a student in Italy,” I thought, “then grand as London. victims of domestic violence that a visa easily. People have very strong opinions arts for 14 years, and about eight months had made in coming to Florence to nothing can hold me back.” might be within reach, but that remaining about American politics, just as they do before I left for Florence, I joined an study. Quickly, I became better at time The Law Centre I interned at provided permanently would be more difficult in about Brexit. academy not far from Marist. My instructor management. I had to so that I could My advice to future study abroad students: legal services to those who could not the absence of a life-or-death situation. contacted me via Facebook and asked incorporate training for competition into Find your passion. When you are invested afford them. It specialized in housing and Sad though the conversations were, I My internship in the heart of London if I would travel with him and his team my daily routine. I scheduled my time in something, more doors open, and more immigration law, and with the yes vote on felt I made a difference, because each yanked me out of my comfort zone, a to Cardiff, Wales, to compete in an carefully, carving out time for the new opportunities present themselves than you Brexit, I knew this would be a busy and woman left with a better understanding good way to grow in so many ways. New international tournament. friends I was making, my schoolwork, might have seen at first glance. During challenging time. First thing every morning, of her options. challenges. New skills. New people, many and even some travel. It was liberating to the first three weeks abroad, I regretted clients bustled in and out seeking to meet of whom are now good friends. More The tournament was only three weeks regain a sense of control in an environment my inability to find a comfort zone quickly. with one of our four solicitors. Some days I attended court with the confidence and more curiosity. On the away. Twenty-one days to prepare to that was originally so overwhelming. Now I know that discomfort is a signal for solicitors and barristers; other days I went last day of my internship I was sad and compete against martial artists from growth; responding to it takes time and I got a firsthand view of the anxiety and alone. One afternoon, a solicitor asked became teary in front of my colleagues all over the world! My instructor was a I had not competed in a tournament perseverance. I would not change my fear Brexit triggered among immigrants, me to attend a proceeding at the Royal when they gave me a good-bye present. masterful confidence builder. “You have in three years. Getting back into a overseas experience in the slightest. If you who worried it might prompt faster Courts of Justice in Westminster. I sat in One solicitor pulled me aside and told me the ability,” he assured me, “and I know competitive atmosphere, training, and are thinking about studying abroad, DO IT! deportation should they not be allowed on housing proceedings and met court not to worry, that she knew that I would be you have the determination and discipline then competing in a new environment was And while you’re at it, be sure to kick some to stay in the United Kingdom. One time officers, magistrates, and barristers, many back. I know she is right! to effectively train and prepare.” exhilarating. In the United States, I fought butt, perhaps literally! I attended a legal aid session in Southall, of whom asked me about my accent and

14 15 ichael Perry’s father, however, a Their gestures were a far cry from the son of Ukrainian parents, wanted telegram of condolence he received from Difficult Beginnings Can Mthe best for his own son – the the son of a French senator, also living kind of education he himself never had. in the Rue Madame residence, whose The younger Perry was not only the first social rank did not allow him to address person in his family studying for a college Father Perry personally. Lead to Wonders that Last a degree; he was also Marist College’s first student to study abroad. He did so without On Thanksgiving, Father Perry and a As described by Father Michael Perry, Marist’s First Study Abroad Student a mobile phone, without the resources to few American women (“I was young, handsome, and the only American man call home even once. There was no friend It was also in Paris that Father Perry around!”) from Mt. St. Vincent’s had no Lifetime to help this solo traveler sort out transport decided to become a priest, a decision place to go. In preparation for dinner in from the port of Le Havre, France, to Paris, he did not tell his parents about until an apartment lent to them by a Canadian and then find 61 Rue Madame. Christmas of the year he returned to priest, two of the women bought five Marist. His mother cried, and for the first An inauspicious beginning pounds of potatoes, which they planned and only time in his life, Father Perry heard to cook at the hotel in which they were his father utter a mild four-letter epithet “I was in a total daze in those early days, living. They also bought a couple of that begins with “S” and ends with “T.” the odd man out,” Father Perry said. He bottles of wine. was the only resident who was not French “My father wanted me to be happy, and he and, therefore, the only one not fluent in “Ultimately, dinner was one unburned did not think happiness was to be found in the language. “I did not wear the same potato and peas pummeled by an electric the priesthood,” Father Perry said. kind of clothing as the other guys,” he said, heating coil that blew a fuse, leaving us In the end his father got what he wanted. “and in those days you could tell where in the dark,” Father Perry said. “So we lit Perry is, indeed, a happy man. people were from by what they wore.” A a candle and sang ‘Blowin’ in the Wind,’ medical student told him he took too many feeling homesick and hungry together.” showers a day – one! “And I was the only Father Michael Perry, Marist ’65, considers Christmas brought an unexpected gift. one who put ketchup on French fries,” himself the “most blessed priest in the Father Perry went to help serve dinner he said. world.” He has been pastor of Our Lady to the elderly poor, people who had lost of Refuge in Brooklyn for 17 years, before Most of the men living in the Rue Madame children during WWII. There he met and which he was the Catholic chaplain at residence came from different socio- was “adopted” by a family whose great the Pratt Institute for 23 years following economic circumstances than Father grandchildren he still sees each summer, other parish work in Brooklyn. For the past Perry. “I never felt poor at home,” he said, including one who is his godson. 26 years, he has served as the English- but an ocean away, this son of an oil truck Thank you Marist! speaking summer priest at Notre Dame driver and waitress was financially limited Cathedral in Paris. by his monthly allowance of $100. “It “I owe so much to Marist, the Marist he said, really was enough,” “depending brothers, and other teachers. Brother Joe Once, at month’s on how much I partied!” Belanger, a powerful influence in my life, Going Abroad? Advice from Father Perry end, Father Perry sneaked down the back tended to my brain and spirit,” Father stairs to the kitchen to pinch some bread. • don’t judge where you are by where you Perry said. “Professor of Art Evelyn Fisher Had he asked, food would have been came from drew me into a lifelong interest in art that provided, but he could not get himself to made me feel completely at home when I • if you want to go home, don’t In August 1963 Marist junior Michael Perry, now Father ask. “I learned the kind of independence became the chaplain at Pratt Institute,” he he said. • embrace the culture you are in Michael Perry, boarded the SS United States out of New that was sink or swim,” said. “Sophomore year metaphysics with York City for Paris to study abroad for a year. “I was nervous An American in Paris – 1963 Dr. Drennan was way above my head,” • go to church – it is part of the culture Father Perry said. He and other students • don’t judge past history by present the whole trip,” he said. “I did not want to go because I was Anyone who lived through the told Dr. Drennan they did not understand standards assassination of President John F. what he was teaching. “It will happen • speak the local language having such a good time at Marist, and I did not want to give up Kennedy will tell you that all Americans one day,” Dr. Drennan said, “and when it mourned as one. Tears flowed endlessly happens, you will know what ‘it’ is.” • get your hands dirty by serving the needy that experience.” as our nation tried to come to grips with the tragedy. On hearing of JFK’s “It” happened for Father Perry when he • don’t eat at McDonald’s was walking down a boulevard in Paris death, Father Perry sought out Father • make friends other than those you already Daniel Berrigan, an American Jesuit on a rainy day. “I ran to a post office and have priest and anti-war activist who lived in sent Dr. Drennan a telegram saying, • keep a journal so you can watch yourself in the residence. Together they went ‘it’ happened!” Dr. Drennan responded, Father Perry grow to the American Embassy.”On the way, “I knew it would.” “For me,” said, people discerned that I was an American “that was Marist Abroad.” • DFTSYP (probably what I was wearing) and reached out to express their sympathy,” he said.

16 17 “A full year abroad – a semester in Florence, a semester in Paris, and a fantastique summer internship in the City of Light that led to a business trip to Asia.”

I have had so many extraordinary Kong and Singapore and helped run two A Year Like No life-changing experiences because a press events for the product launch of a handful of incredible professors and new skincare line in Asia. Other, with a staff at Marist College believed in me and pushed me to live my dreams. During the internship I worked closely with many stores throughout Asia as an Very Fashionable It was a summer internship in Paris that assistant distributor. Being able to use brought me the most special moments both marketing and sales skills while Twist By Danielle Melillo in a year filled with special moments, a abroad furthered my attraction to future summer position that opened and will work in international markets. continue to open doors for me to step through and explore. On a job-related In just one year, I soaked up Europe trip to Asia, I was accompanied by my (17 countries!), traveled to Africa, and boss for three days, and then I traveled worked in Asia! New cultures and alone for eight. That my boss trusted me foreign languages bring with them new to represent her company throughout perspectives that will forever color my Get ready for adventure. Hong Kong and Singapore – solo – career and personal life. was both a confidence-builder and a high compliment. If someone told me 18 months ago that Start your application today! I would be overseas for a full year, I I jumped in head first, engulfing myself would have thought, “Not happening. marist.edu/abroad in the tantalizing food and bountiful That’s a long time.” I learned that to cultural opportunities in Asia while really grow, you sometimes have to go gaining firsthand experience of the work after goals you think may be unrealistic, life and consumer demographics in the because they may not be! So to anyone region. So much activity in just 11 days. reading this and thinking about studying I met with buyers and marketing teams abroad, go! to discuss product distribution in Hong 18 19 1st Place

1st Place: Owen Polzello for “Cinque Terre”

Florence, Italy, was Owen’s home in the summer of 2016 when he and other students participated in Marist’s inaugural ASPIRE Finance program. A tradition begins – Marist’s new International Photo He is a senior majoring in business administration, Contest. This year we determined winners by the number minoring in criminal justice, and planning to graduate in May 2018. of “likes” each photo received during the voting period.

Eighty amazing photos were entered from our 2016-17

study abroad students. We wish we had room for all of 2nd Place: Kacey O’Brien for “Guess What Day 2nd Place 3rd Place them! You can enjoy more entries on the next two pages, it Is”

or see all of them at facebook.com/maristabroad. Kacey studied abroad with API at its Seville, Spain, location in fall 2016. She is currently a senior majoring in business administration and minoring in advertising. She plans to graduate in May 2018.

3rd Place: Courtney Martere for “The Heart of Florence Has Stolen My Heart”

Courtney studied abroad in Florence, Italy, in spring 2016 and graduated with a degree in communications in May 2017.

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19 22 23 At the start of her second semester in Madrid in the late ’60s, Carol Toufali woke up in her room in a pensión to the sound of a young man’s infectious laughter echoing down the corridor. She thought, “I love that laugh. I want to know the man with that laugh. I am going to like that man.”

It was a prophetic thought. Mo, the man with the inimitable laugh, is her husband of 42 years. Had Carol been a giver- BE A SEEKER, NOT A FOLLOWER upper, she never would have met him . . . Mo Toufali in Madrid, 1975

An Interview with Carol Toufali omeone who has coordinated a think you can cope with, cope! You can. face with something unexpected, and Carol Toufali in Madrid, 1975 S college’s overseas studies program You will grow more confident. You will that’s okay. for 22 years has plenty to say to learn about resourcefulness you did students planning to study abroad. not know you had. You will feel pride Back home in New York for semester But when asked what she thinks is the at overcoming a taxing situation. Years break during her Madrid year, Carol most important advice she has shared, from now you will remember and laugh did not want to return to Madrid. “You and limited to the top two nuggets in at the adversities which, at the time, can’t imagine how badly I did not want her portfolio, Marist’s retiring senior seemed “the end of the world.” to go back,” she said, stressing every coordinator of international programs word. She felt, though, that if she did did not need much thinking time. A storyteller par excellence, Carol does not fulfill her commitment, she would not just offer advice. She shares her own ultimately regret the choice. Second She said, “Be a seeker, not a follower,” study-abroad ups and downs, many semester, Carol found a pensión. She followed in a nanosecond by, “Keep still relevant decades later despite the also found Mo. going, don’t give up!” Those suggestions myriad ways in which technology has cover a lot of territory. “Study someplace changed the experience of being away When she closed her office door for the other than where your friends are going,” from home. last time at the end of June 2017, Carol she coaches students contemplating a set out on a different kind of journey, study abroad program. The more people As a Spanish-language major, she retirement, which is also likely to bring you already know, the fewer new friends thrived in Mexico and remembers it the unexpected with it. She said she is you are likely to meet, she believes, and as colorful and happy and bright and going to miss working with students and the fewer people from another culture friendly. Madrid would be the same, with her colleagues at Marist and with whom you interact. she thought, another Spanish-speaking abroad, speaking fondly of people with country. You can imagine her surprise whom she has emailed for years but A seeker, Carol explains, is in search when, under the aegis of another never met in person! They, and Marist, of a lot of things, fun and new friends school in the early days of study abroad are going to miss her too. It’s our hunch for sure, but that goes without saying. programs, Carol found herself living, by she will be bumping into past Marist Study abroad, she says, lets you find her own description, in a “building in a study-abroaders whether she is traveling out who you are and who you want to cow pasture along a highway outside to a greenhouse for garden supplies or be. It helps you set goals for the short Madrid, with Spanish college students across the country to spend time with term and the future. While it may sound who had no interest in befriending a New family. Thank you, Carol! lofty, “It also helps you define your own York hippie.” personal philosophy,” she said. “And, of course, do not forget that you go abroad Today, some Marist study abroaders, Editor’s note: Carol Toufali holds a BA to study – not just your course work, but too, find themselves living in in Spanish from SUNY Plattsburgh, with people and cultures, food and tradition, circumstances very different from what studies abroad in Mexico and Spain, and architecture and natural beauty.” they are used to, particularly if they opt an MPA from Marist College. Between to study or visit more remote places degrees she enjoyed teaching English as There will be bumps along the way, with cultures very different from ours. a second language at Berlitz Schools in Carol asserts, so expect them! Fasten The difference is that they have a better Manhattan, Madrid, and at the American your seatbelt when you hit a rough spot idea of what to expect. Carol cautions, Cultural Center in Fes, Morocco. – if the language or the transportation however, that during the course of a stay Carol coordinated Marist Abroad or a roommate or a moment of abroad, wherever you study, the odds students from 1995 through spring 2017. homesickness seems more than you are strong you will find yourself face to

24 25 By James Morrow-Polio Fashion forward! If you are contemporary context of fashion. Studies seminars. Two weeks do fly by, but the interested in the business of include product development, fashion program is packed with Paris-is-your- international fashion, wrap trend forecasting, visual merchandising, classroom activities. Students go couture, fashion branding, and product history, visiting the high-end Avenue des Champs yourself up in Marist’s in-depth complemented by visits to industry Élysées for a visual design lesson or fashion-themed study abroad locations, trade shows, and iconic fashion attending a conference at Lesage about I made friends for life and see program in Paris, the center locales. Haute Couture. the world differently. of the French fashion industry. Course work is in English for Two program-related excursions broaden Included in the program is a survival this unique program available students’ understanding of their host French course to help students better The nation and the world of fashion. On a engage with people and places as to Marist and non-Marist one-day trip to Normandy, students visit they visit different parts of the city. And participants. the Caen Memorial, a museum and war there are special moments: Last year memorial commemorating World War II it was a lecture on perfume marketing, The school and the Battle for Caen; D-Day landing complemented by a visit to the Paris beaches; and the American Cemetery. Perfume Museum. Past years featured L’Institut Supérieur Spécialisé de la a lecture and visit to Aubade (lingerie!) Mode, better known as Mod’Spe Paris, Five days in Morocco, distinguished headquarters, and a discussion about the Business of is a fashion business school born in by its Berber, Arabian, and European unique French fashion within the greater 1993 as an initiative of La Fédération cultural influence, include workshops and European market. Several of our winter Française du Prêt-à-Porter Féminin (The discussions about religion, fashion, gender session students have been so enamored Federation of Women’s Ready-to-Wear). equality, and immigration, and students of the experience, they returned to Paris It prepares students for exciting fashion mingle with university-age Moroccans. Our for a full semester! careers through a blend of fashion industry students explore multiple cities and visit knowledge and a business approach: local tailor shops, a modern Moroccan To learn more about Marist’s Mod’Spe Fashion at product knowledge; creativity, efficiency, designer’s workshop, and a concept store program in Paris, visit marist.edu/abroad/ and passion; and open mindedness – all to deepen their fashion and cultural parisfashion toward the fashion business world and experiences. Morocco is frequently a its constant evolution. Future fashion highlight for students and staff alike, and professionals are trained in the latest is certainly part of the story they tell when marketing, sales, and communication they return to campus. strategies, most specifically in the luxury the Center and design sectors. Winter Session in Paris Marist Mod’Spe for a semester Students who cannot study abroad in Paris for a full semester can enjoy a two-week Course work is designed for students taste of Mod’Spe in January, including to take full advantage of Paris as the company and workshop visits, lectures of Fashion classroom, examining the historical and by active industry guest professors, and

In Paris I learned to stay open-minded, and never stop exploring.

Morocco was life changing, eye opening – honestly, the highlight of my experience abroad.

26 27 in Ireland. Subjects range from Irish or an opportunity to observe the Assembly We know that most students will be living economics to the politics of peace and in session. A guided historical walk of the on their own for the first time, so housing is conflict in Northern Ireland. Derry City walls (Derry is the only surviving an important component of the program. walled city in Ireland) and visits to the Students will live at Binary Hub, a 15- to • Writing for College helps students Giant’s Causeway and the Carrick-a- 20-minute walk to the Dublin Business develop and hone their writing and Rede Rope Bridge within the picturesque School. Each student will be assigned a critical thinking skills while exploring coastal landscape of County Antrim round single room with an en-suite bathroom in subjects significant to historical and out a weekend of learning, questioning, small apartment complexes that include contemporary Ireland and the European and seeing Northern Ireland past and shared kitchen spaces and common Union. present. areas. Student Life Assistants based in the residence hall and other support staff ensure • First Year Forward challenges students to place what they are learning in their • Two-night stay in the West of Ireland. a safe and secure environment, and the courses into context – a formative, The itinerary for this adventure west is program itself offers a full range of additional experiential, and singular opportunity for likely to include a visit to the medieval student support services. Spend Your Freshman Year in Ireland! city of Galway and then a full-day tour growth and development. of Connemara to visit Kylemore Abbey Back to Marist – now what? Each required course complements the and take in the sights and sounds of the Introducing the Freshman Dublin Experience others and engages students not only in cultural heart of Ireland. A ferry trip to the Students who spend their freshman year the classroom, but also through group exclusively Irish-speaking Aran Island, abroad come back to a campus where Dr. Gavin Webb excursions, individual exercises, and Inis Mór, will allow students to experience their peers know the ropes and have fully Director of International Programs Marist is going to the land of small group work. Beyond these anchor firsthand a people facing cultural acclimated to the campus and community. John M. Pearson courses, students will choose others at the homogenization – as well as some of the We welcome them as sophomores with an Senior VP of Operations, Foundation for leprechauns with a full-year program Dublin Business School that align with their monastic gems and pre-history artifacts in-depth orientation and programs created International Education majors and interests. Students will typically the island treasures. On the final day, to ensure a smooth entry, continued support, for incoming freshmen looking for a complete 10-11 courses during the we’re off to County Clare to discover the and opportunities for them to share their academic year and then join Marist’s New famed Cliffs of Moher and the Burren experiences on campus and stay in touch challenging and enlightening academic York campus for their sophomore year. landscape that predates Pangaea by with one another. There is a strong network hundreds of millions of years and once of students who have already been abroad, and cultural experience. Join us in the On the move rested in sub-equatorial tropical waters. and they are eager to help newly returning vibrant European capital that brought students feel part of Marist on this side of the In addition to local excursions, there On both field trips, students will be Atlantic, one-to-one and in groups. us James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, Sinéad are two extraordinary trips. While accompanied by staff from Marist, the exact itineraries will vary from year to Foundation for International Education, O’Connor, and Bono! year, students are likely to experience or the Dublin Business School. Is Ireland calling you? If you think you’d excursions like these: like to spend your first year as a Marist Orientation, housing, and program student in the Emerald Isle; immerse arist’s newest program, launching in Classes for the Freshman Dublin Courses, educational excursions, and • Weekend in Northern Ireland. Start with support yourself in its history, culture, and Mfall 2018, is open to students from Experience will meet at the highly experiential education a guided tour of the political murals in people; walk in the footsteps of some of most majors at Marist. Requirements: respected Dublin Business School, a Belfast and Derry, taking time to discuss All freshmen require support to develop the the world’s greatest authors, poets, and commitment and a sense of adventure. private, fully accredited institution offering The program’s courses are wide ranging, their social, political, and historical attitude and skill sets needed to excel in playwrights; and have an experience undergraduate and graduate courses but all students will take these courses in significance. Then enjoy a private tour college. Students in the Freshman Dublin you will talk about for the rest of your Marist created the program in partnership in business, finance, anthropology, Dublin: of Stormont, site of devolved power in Experience face the additional challenge of life, join our inaugural Freshman Dublin with the London-based Foundation for psychology, film studies, media studies, Northern Ireland and the home of the developing these attributes while studying in Experience. To learn more about Marist’s International Education (FIE), also a leader literature, and drama. Founded in 1975 • Irish Life and Cultures is an Northern Ireland Assembly. There could a new environment. Dedicated program staff Freshman Dublin Experience, call (845) in the development of innovative freshman and located in central Dublin, the Dublin interdisciplinary, first-year seminar be a Q&A session with Members of the work with our students from pre-departure to 575-3330, or e-mail [email protected] programs. Currently, students from Business School is now Ireland’s largest course examining Irish life and society Legislative Assembly from different parties program’s end. more than 50 U.S.-based colleges and independent institution of its kind, with a through reading, lectures, and field universities participate in FIE’s programs. student population of almost 10,000. experiences in Dublin and other places

28 29 Asia Study Abroad Program (ASAP) By Jon Dombek, ASAP staff and alumnus

If it’s Tuesday it must be...

The numbers are stunning. If you participate in the Asia Study Abroad Program (ASAP), you will see approximately 12 countries plus Hong Kong and Tibet, your feet will touch ground in more than 20 cities, and you will visit more than 20 companies and embassies – in the course of 114 days! You’ll travel by plane, train, boat, bus, subway, sky train, monorail, car, taxi, tuk tuk, and the old standby – your feet.

Yes, there is a lot of movement, but the same phenomenon at the start ability to understand and embrace there is also so much learning and of the program – culture shock! On differences. So, too, are the skills culture to take in as you see how life morning one, students walk out of the needed to successfully balance class is lived on the other side of the world. hotel to see cows mingling with locals assignments, exams, and due dates I am an ASAP “three-peat.” In 2008 I who are scurrying off to start their day. given the lure of the local environment was a 20-year-old student. Two years The differences they learned about calling you – the food, ah, the food! later I went back as a student staff from one another on their flight fade member, and this past spring away in comparison to what meets The refrain I hear over and over again I served as co-coordinator. their eyes. “This is not my place,” about ASAP, and I sing it too, is, “This many feel, or even say, but the follow- program is life-changing.” Not a day Beginnings: At the JFK airport, up to that observation is most often, passes without something reminding students shake hands with people “But I like it!” me of an experience or idea that they may never have seen, and by Throughout our travels, gracious hosts that allows ample time in each city came my way back in 2008. the time they land in Delhi, India, they Jetlagged, we meet with Rachael in the U.S. Commercial Service, Ford to meet people and experience the are already involved in a program- Duran, the Commercial Attaché at Thailand, KPMG, Summit Auto Body unique culture of that place. For those who want a mind- long conversation during which they the U.S. Embassy, whose economic Works, Arup Shanghai, and many stretching experience that can truly discover their similarities, explore briefing provides insight into India others welcome us, enlightening us It is the differences that stay etched differentiate them personally and differences, and wrestle with the as a country, a culture, and a place about their businesses and how they in our memories: chanting in a professionally while challenging eternal first-encounter question: Will to do business. That meeting could created careers overseas. They offer monastery at 5 a.m. and interacting preconceived notions and comfort I fit in? serve as a symbol for the beauty of the kind of perspective you can only with local students, perhaps zones, I say, “Apply, get a passport, ASAP, tying together classroom ideas, get through give-and-take interactions Vietnamese students in Ho Chi pack some clothes – not too many – Timidity quickly gives way to concepts, and theories with their with experts in their fields and the Minh City who also enjoy sharing and “Be There!” familiarity and the start of a semester application in the workaday world, a local region. stories about their educations of bonding and a study abroad perfect yin and yang for a successful and their lives. Skills developed in To learn more about Marist’s ASAP experience that is anything but learning experience. The ASAP itinerary is aggressive, but these serendipitous encounters are program, call (845) 575-3330, or common. Almost everyone registers you already know that. We move on bedrock for careers and relationships e-mail [email protected] average every five days, a schedule where success can hinge on one’s

30 31 Learning to speak Samoan On a side trip from our home and living in people’s base at the Deakin University homes throughout the program in Melbourne, I Pacific Islands transformed spent a few days on the North Island of New Zealand with me from a girl who was Maddy, Lacey, and Emily, afraid of the unknown to a three of my new American woman who embraces it. friends. Our foursome explored Auckland for a couple of days, and our last North Island destination was Piha, a gorgeous beach with black sand and massive rocks.

Culture Shock By Darriel McBride The Best View By Meghan Jones OPENED MY MIND IN AUCKLAND I was a Marist pioneer, the first to study made ceremoniously from the root of a research project under the guidance A twisty, disappointing prologue The main event and shinnied across the rain-soaked, in Samoa for a semester. I am also the pepper-like shrub, there was a feeling of of a mentor and advisor. I examined slippery platform into the open air. first person in my family to study abroad, authenticity that blew me away. corporal punishment policy in Samoa What we knew: Piha Beach is in the Almost conspiratorially, the tour guide told and when I try to share the experience I studied Pacific Island communities and the difficulties of implementing and southwest of the North Island, and we had us, “Just walk right up that street, through In true Auckland fashion the sky half a day to get there and back to catch our the town, and you’ll get to Mount Victoria. cleared, and the sun let her presence with friends and family, I still feel and social change as well as the many enforcing it. Corporal punishment is return flight to Melbourne. What we did not It’s the best part of my tour. You’ll see the be known. Below me spread the city of somewhat speechless, because it was so factors, including globalization, that prohibited in schools, but many Samoan know: How to get to Piha and how much best view in Auckland up there.” Auckland, the harbor, and the pristine transformative. have an impact on a developing nation. teachers and principals use it as a form time would be spent in travel. We wandered New Zealand verdure. For the first time, I learned about how of discipline or behavior management, the city in search of public transportation. When he said “up that street,” he meant it, Studying abroad is one thing, but Western countries like the United States possibly because historically it was We went from travel agency to visitor literally. The town’s steep main street led The takeaway studying abroad in a developing country have colonized island nations such as acceptable in Samoan culture. Talking us to the base of Mount Victoria. We must center hearing at one, “You have time to Those last few hours in Auckland were such as the Pacific Island of Samoa Samoa, Fiji, and Hawaii, and contributed with teachers, administrators, students, make the trip,” and at another, “The trip is have circled the entire base of the mountain brings unique challenges. I applied to to the loss of land, life, and culture. The and people in the community made the before asking a Kiwi jogger for directions. unexpected. We lived in the minute and not worth it.” had an unexpected adventure we will study there because of its potential to introduction of Western concepts has experience very personal and broadened Ultimately we trudged up a steep paved talk about for many years. Sometimes reshape my values and my sense of self. compromised and challenged some my understanding of cultural differences At the train station we learned that there drive that turned into a winding dirt path. On the most memorable experiences come I am happy to say that Samoa did that traditional values in the Pacific Islands. and how they affect attitudes, values, did not exist a train that could get us close. the final leg our climb, the skies opened and serendipitously if you are open to them. for me with a rich program of lectures; On the upside, I learned how Western and choices. I did not know that corporal The beach was isolated inside the massive the rain came down in sheets. seminars; educational excursions; influence has helped many small islands punishment is still legal in more than a Waitakere National Park. Without our It does that in Auckland – sunshine that That holds true of my whole semester independent study; and homestays on including American Samoa by creating dozen states in the United States! own vehicle, an employee told us, we’d abroad, but what also is etched into my never get there and back in time. Okay, makes you want to lift your face to the sun Fiji, American Samoa, and Samoa – as jobs and a more stable economy. followed by a short downpour, followed memory is the kindness and helpfulness of well as orientation in Hawaii. Samoa pushed and prodded me into surrender, we gave up. Yet another visitors’ strangers. That tour guide forfeited the shot station suggested we go to the island of by a rainbow. Repeat, all day. I saw more In the United States, individuality is becoming more flexible and capable of that we might have been paying customers Devonport, a short and inexpensive ferry rainbows during my three days in Auckland For more than 50 years, Samoa has been encouraged early on, not that we aren’t stretching further than I have ever had and told us how to get to his favorite spot ride across Auckland Harbor, where tours than I had the entire rest of my life. an independent nation. In official United expected to be able to be part of a team, to at home. One of the most important on the tour at no cost. left every hour. Nations terms, it has recently graduated an organization, or a community. But lessons I brought home with me is Rain-soaked, we reached the summit to So, no Piha Beach that day, a perfectly from the category of a least-developed in Samoa, a greater value is placed on see . . . nothing. A thick cloud obscured how to get more comfortable with the “That’ll be thirty dollars each,” the tour wonderful reason to return Down Under! country to that of a developing country. community than individualism, and living uncomfortable. I have been seriously guide said, seeing immediately from the any view, let alone the incredible one we in such an environment has made me infected by the travel bug in the best way we looked at one another that we were had climbed to see. We ducked into what Samoa and the other Pacific Islands have challenge some of my thinking, which is possible way, and I know that studying not thrilled about the idea of whipping out appeared to be an underground military structure to wait out the rain. Then, seeking rich indigenous cultures and practices. always a good thing. abroad was only the launching pad for the our wallets and spending that much apiece more adventure, I stepped onto the thin From the art of tattooing – often covering rest of my journey. for one hour. ladder that led to the top of the structure large areas of the body and looking like One of the highlights of my time abroad clothing – to kava, the national drink was the freedom to develop my own 32 33 Freshman in Florence, Three Semesters Sophomore in New Abroad – Why Not? York. It Works! By Christie Alfaro, Assistant Director, Marist Italy By Anneliese Saltarelli – Italy, Spain, Cuba Laura Zuelch, Coordinator, Marist Italy

For some graduating high school students, before most FFE students and alumni later, and we’ve become close friends. He’s • On the other hand, I recall my host universities. We went scuba diving and Florence beckons. The language, the were born, is a good refrain for Marist’s definitely someone I can count on to have mother in Salamanca repeating “Que danced salsa and took rides around the thought of cappuccino on a piazza to FFE Mentors Program and FFE Alumni my back.” calor, que calor” (so hot) in the car ride city in American cars from the 1950s. start the day, the lure of the boot-shaped Network. They offer wide-ranging activities to her family’s home, an effort, I think, We spent days at Las Playas del Este The program delivers gifts to mentors, too. country, the desire to see the land of their to reduce the worry and enhance the to connect with my new roommate and watching the palm fronds sway and the They make friends they may never have grandparents or great grandparents . . . happy of students starting campus life in me. We were initially fairly silent and water gently touch the shore. We visited met and enjoy the pleasure that comes their sophomore year. overwhelmed. art galleries and walked at night along helping others cope with feelings they the Malecón, a five-mile esplanade and Think, for example, of mentor speed- know well. Leslie Diaz (’17) was grateful for But freshman year? The whole year? Will I New friends are gifts. seawall along the Havana coast. feel out of it when I return to Marist in New matching, field day, and football tailgating. the mentors who took her and other FFE York? Will it be harder to make friends? Think of finding and picking the best sophomores under their wings and helped • In the welcoming city of Havana, you Note to prospective Cuba-bound students: apples and pumpkins with new friends, them integrate into campus life. Now she can become friends with anybody. The first 24 hours without Wi-Fi were Fair questions, all, and we believe the or of sporting something you would not is a mentor. “By being an FFE mentor, I • In Florence, I befriended one of the agonizing. How would my parents know answers are yes and yes (if you seek wear anywhere other than an ugly sweater can do for incoming FFE sophomores what pasta chefs from Il Mercato Centrale I was OK? How would I last an entire the adventure of a year abroad) and holiday party. Think Toastmasters, roller they did for me.” with whom I am still good friends today. semester without always-available Wi-Fi? then no and no. We might not always skating, or a make-your-own-granola I also entered into a beautiful It turned out that being absent from social have answered no and no to the last two fest. Mentors, other FFE alumni, and The FFE Alumni Network includes a wider relationship with Napolitano pizza pie! media helped me be truly present in Cuba. questions, but two wonderful programs returning students build community and network of FFE students who want to help at Marist are easing re-entry for students but are not formally part of the Mentors deepen connections and relationships Wherever you live, live! And eat! Don’t stress because you don’t speak taking advantage of our prestigious with one another, the College, and Program. The network provides a platform like a native. Freshman Florence Experience (FFE). One the Hudson Valley. for all FFE to support one another in their • In Florence, where I lived in an is our FFE Mentors Program, and the other academic, personal, and professional apartment near Piazza Santa Croce, • When I arrived in Salamanca, I felt as if is the FFE Alumni Network. Perhaps most importantly, the programs development at Marist. close to leather markets and tiny cafes, all six years of Spanish I had taken had gone right into the garbage. Week by offer FFE returnees the opportunity to stay Three semesters abroad. Yes, at I truly found a second home and plan Students studying abroad their freshman “It’s a great way to be involved and also week, though, I grew more comfortable connected to each other and explore the Marist you can do that! Different as to return. I fell in love with Italian cuisine year grow so much as people and learn about things happening around not only talking in Spanish with my host significance of their overseas experiences my experiences were in Florence, and checked out places visited by students that we are inspired by the campus,” said Rachel Lohrius (’18). “It’s family but also spending time with them. as they relate to the new home-campus Salamanca, and Havana, each has Elizabeth Gilbert, author of the memoir confidence they gain as they successfully been fun meeting all the incoming students In this city I realized and accepted that adventure. The Mentors Program assures changed me forever. Eat Pray Love. And I can still taste the navigate transatlantic and European that each returning FFE student has a and also learning from older FFE alumni. sweet Belgian waffle covered in rich making mistakes is part of the language- flights, trains, and buses; manage a mentor who, having already been an FFE The network brings together all kinds Because I am a Spanish major, many chocolate sauce that I bought during learning process, and when it happens, budget; master how to shop for and student, knows personally how it feels to of people with varied interests, yet we people wondered, “Why Florence?” to the Fiera del Cioccolato Artigianale, a all I have to do is say, “No pasa nada” prepare meals; converse in Italian; come back to this side of the Atlantic. can all bond and respect one another.” which I responded, “Why not?” That simple delectable chocolate fair. (nothing is wrong or it’s okay), and keep undertake rigorous academic course Both the FFE Alumni network and the question, asked and answered many times moving! work in an unfamiliar environment; and Cassandra Pinto (’19), who said that she Mentors Program grow with each returning during my study abroad, has become a • In Salamanca, home to one of the • Staff members at the student residence learn to embrace a culture very different did not know what to expect at Marist group of freshmen. guiding force in my life. oldest and most beautiful universities from their own. New York, discovered that “The Mentors in the world, I lived with a warm and in Havana spoke only in their native Program made coming back so much Solo travel is an adventure. welcoming family. At night, my host Spanish, a great learning opportunity Confidence, though, is an asset that can Ringo Starr sings lead on “We Get by easier. We got to see kids who relate to us sister and host cousin took me out to for me. They also cooked us delicious, be challenged by anxiety, and we learned with a Little Help From our Friends” from • I traveled alone to each place – no having a great time and making the most of Plaza Mayo, inarguably the most well-lit authentically Cuban meals. Because that some returning FFE students do the Beatles’ iconic Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely friends and at most an acquaintance their experiences in Poughkeepsie.” plaza in all of Spain. We went on family many in Cuba do not speak English, it is feel anxious about how they will fit into Hearts Club Band album. While there is or two. Lesson learned: If you don’t do outings to the mountains, the movies, an ideal place to learn Spanish. the rhythm of campus and community Aaron Todd (’19) told us, still debate about whether The Beatles or what scares you, you will miss out on “My mentor and even the circus. I realized that had I life among classmates who have had a Joe Cocker delivered the definitive version great opportunities! Marist Abroad has given me the gifts was awesome. We were like an icon for lived in a dorm, I would have had great – year’s head start. match.com. Our personalities fit so well. of that song, there is no debate that FFE of exploration and discovery of both • From Florence, I took day trips to Lucca, and different – experiences, but I would He took me hiking and out to eat, and students do more than get by with a little the world and myself. The experience Arezzo, Milan, and Bologna by myself have missed out on this wonderful and “Don’t worry, be happy.” shared a wealth of knowledge that really help from former FFE students, many of has been transformational. I know that and enjoyed my own company as well personal one. got me intertwined and feeling far more whom become very dear friends! To learn opportunity is mine if I am willing to put as the pure beauty that is the Italian Jazz vocalist Bobby McKerrin’s “Don’t comfortable during the drastic change in more about Marist’s Freshman Florence • In Havana, on the other hand, I lived in myself out there and take it. For this countryside. Worry, Be Happy,” a number one hit from environment. Here I am now, a semester Experience, visit italy.marist.edu/ffe a residence with students from other important lesson, I am eternally grateful. 34 35 Venice Biennale 2017By Dr. Isabel Carrasco, Director, Marist Madrid “During the Biennale, Venice turns into a massive exhibition space that unveils new “The Marist Venice Biennale Program is unique at Marist and in trends and new artistic languages. It is where the voices of the most interesting artists and curators from all over the world meet. Students who have the chance education today. It allows art students the latitude and time to fully to study and work in this atmosphere better understand the cultural, social, and immerse themselves in their work, so they can better understand not political context we live in and gain perspective for the future.” Professor Federico Gori, artist, sculptor, and art historian at Istituto Lorenzo de’ Medici only the art they create, but also themselves.

Many go on to graduate school and pursue other creative opportunities The grand finale of the program is a public display of student work that transforms the afterward, because they have been schooled in that most important studio in Chiesa di San Geremia into an exhibition space worthy of a professional Professor Ed Smith, Director of Marist Venice Biennale Program, National aspect of creativity – perseverance.” artist. In a year and a city where there Academician, and Guggenheim Fellow are exhibitions on every corner, Venice draws a broad, art-loving audience. San projects. Well-managed, “structured” headphones, watched series or movies, Geremia is in a prime location, just adjacent freedom is one of the key success factors listened to music, or did multiple things at to the Chapel of Santa Lucia, a must-see of this program, where inspiration and the same time! It was a flow of creation. for Venice visitors and close to transport. work style dictate a student’s routine, Most remarkable was that little in the Our students interact with an international and following the muses is indeed studio resembled a typical class or a and diverse public, a rare opportunity a true option. school; it was more elevated than that. It for young artists. looked more like the studios of a group of As visiting staff from Marist as well as an professional artists in residence. Venice has launched many world- art historian, I remember perfectly the renown classical painters, sculptors, and ambience of the studios when escorted Biennale program participants determine architects including Canaletto, Canova, there by Professor Smith my first night the medium, subject, and technique in and Palladio. It has drawn poets, writers, in Venice. Two weeks into the program, which they will immerse themselves. and intellectuals as diverse as Ernest Imagine having your own studio in Venice much of the artwork was already at an Victoria Vuoso, for example, had Hemingway, Lord Byron, and Peggy during the most prestigious exhibition of advanced stage, and each customized taken a class in digital art at Marist Guggenheim, so it is not by chance that art in the world. It could be your reality! space revealed something about the and enjoyed the work so much, she this city hosts what is now the oldest art student who inhabited it. wanted to further develop it. Mia Blas exposition, the Biennale. Every odd year, coinciding with the decided to work on abstract paintings celebration of the International Exhibition There were areas so well organized that in the old tradition of using handmade The Venice experience is one that of the Venice Biennale of Contemporary the evolution of a work of art became Venetian watermark paper. enhances resumés and broadens Art, Marist College and Istituto Lorenzo immediately apparent; no captions were post-graduate educational and career de’ Medici (LdM) collaborate to offer a needed to explain these artists’ creative Taylor Mancuso wanted to sculpt, and opportunities. But its real value is in the rigorous month-long program in studio art processes. Other spaces revealed the after taking photographs of random moment, not the future. It enables students and art history. unique charm of a work in progress. people around Venice, she created a to breathe the same air, be inspired by They brimmed with beautiful chaos in bust that embodied all the people she the same visions, and soak in a city that Student studios are in Chiesa di San which random objects – snacks, brushes, encountered during her stay. And Kaitlyn has nourished so many artists. I cannot Geremia (St. Geremia Church) in Venice. beads, pieces of paper, inspiring Clows’s interventions on ready-made recommend this program highly enough. I The work area has an open floorplan and photographs, or dismissed preparatory Venetian masks touched on the idea encourage you to contact the Marist Italy plenty of light filling the historic building work – revealed something personal of the hidden self. All of these students office to learn more and possibly prepare with energy. Each student enjoys a private about the artist. concur that their tenure in Venice helped to apply to the summer 2019 program! space set off from the others by panels. them better understand process, from When I first arrived at the studio, some getting started to working through bumps To learn more about Marist’s Venice Studios are open from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m., students were out getting some distance along the way to completion. A bonus Biennale program, visit italy.marist.edu/ freeing students from the constraints of from their work, perhaps doing fieldwork of being part of a small program is the biennale more limited hours, so they can leave, in a city where art is virtually impossible to precious and exclusive time and attention grab something to eat, go for a walk, and avoid. Those in the studio were reading, each student enjoys from Professor Smith still devote many working hours to their painting, thinking, talking. Some wore and Professor Gori. 36 37 WHERE IN THE WORLD ARE MARIST STUDENTS?

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42 43 “ The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”

Eleanor Roosevelt